Author Archives: Pearl

Update on how Tiny Words is doing. In part, As of July 8, 2007, we have garnered enough book sales to donate funds sufficient to give three-and-a-half flocks of chicks.

Charles Simic, editor of The Paris Review is the new Poet Laureate of the U.S., replacing Donald Hall. Time flies. I thought it was still Ted Kooser. Each person is over the 10 poetry collections mark, and into the white-haired area. P.S. Simic also won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award the same day of his […]

Compare and Contrast is the theme challenge of the week at One Deep Breath a hay(na)ku platitudes whitewashed words picket senses, locked and Fibonacci sequence (1/1/2/3/5/8) rain on ridges blackberry alveolar ridge winter forgot these sensations and a short poem, classes concentration: first sonnets tongue tips stuck out. I watch iambs being led to slaughter.

Various things have caught my eye lately of people blogging about poetry, reading or writing it. At the Guardian there was an article of a woman reflecting how she felt after she read the entire stack of books nominated for a poetry prize. After immersion in poetry she started to crave novels but when free […]

Toes tight curled in shoes, arriving in a private park near the border of B.C. and Alberta, driving down the switchback lane down bluff, with a guard rail looking like a wriggly gum wrapper caught around the worst curves. At dusk, setting up camp, peg poles in by feel, fingers finding lilliputian cacti. Overcast night […]